Privacy Policy Statement

Our postal address is:

HIKING.INFO
PO Box 12232
Marina del Rey, CA 90295

We can be reached at the address above, or via e-mail at
privacy@hiking.info.

Privacy Policy

We collect the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via
e-mail. Additionally, for each visit to a page on our web site our
web server records the IP address from which the connection
originates. This may be be used to determine information about the
visitors domain name, ISP, affiliated organization, or location. The
server also collects information about the user's computer, browser,
operating system, and other information sent by the browser including
the URL of the last page visited from which a link was followed to our
site. Cookies and/or web beacons may be set and read by third party
ad servers and web site analysis software (such as Google Adsense and
Google Analytics) that enable repeat visits to be recognized, and
support the analysis of visit specific information about the pages
that are accessed.

The information collected, set, and stored by such third party
services could potentially be used to correlate data about visits to
pages on this site, with information collected when the user visits
other internet sites. Some of the services that display advetisements
on this site (e.g. Google Adsense) set and read cookies to select the
ads that will be displayed when visitig this site, and other
sites. This selection of ads may be based on information collected
during your visits to this site as well as visits to other sites on
the Internet. With respect to the "DART" cookie used by Google
AdSense, you may opt-out of its use by visiting the Google ad and content
network privacy policy.

We collect the e-mail addresses and other personal information of
those who post messages to message forums available on our site, but
only when such information is specifically provided to us by the
visitor. We also collect messages specifically posted to our messages
forums by visitors, and the information in such messages is made
publicly available - we have no control over what others who view such
messages do with that information.

We use the information we collect to improve the content of our Web
page, and to respond to requests by users. Except as described
elsewhere in this policy We do not use this information for marketing
purposes, although information collected by the third party services
described above might be used for such purposes according to their
stated policies (see the list of third party services below).

Some of our sites have associated mailing lists which visitors may
request to join. If a visitor joins a mailing list we will from time
to time send them messages that are posted to the joined list.
Visitors may request removal from the mailing list through the same
means by which they joined, or they may contact us for removal at the
e-mail address listed above.

The information collected by us is stored by our web site hosting
provider, and as a result is available to them (whether we
specifically choose to share it or not). Similarly, some of the data
described above is managed by analysis tools (e.g. Google Analytics),
and as a result is available to them. Our site uses ad servers to
display ads that are of interest to you - these are relationships with
other companies that we allow to place ads on our Web pages. As a
result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect
information including your domain type, domain name, your IP address
and clickstream information. Any breach in protection of such data
while it is stored on servers of these third parties could result in
the information becoming available to others.

For further information about the information collected by these other
companies, and what they do with this information, please consult the privacy
policies found on the websites for the following services:

Service

Web site

Google Adsense

google.com/adsense

Google Analytics

google.com/analytics

Commission Junction

cj.com

Linkshare Corporation

linkshare.com

Connect Commerce (Google)

connectcommerce.com

Amazon.com

amazon.com

1 and 1

1and1.com

Additionally, clicking on an external link (a link that takes you to
web site other than our own) from a page on our site, may provide
information to the other site regarding the URL of page on our site
from which you clicked their link. Such external sites may collect
information acording to their own privacy policy, or even without
limitation by a published privacy policy at all.

If you wish to block the setting of and or reading of cookies you
should consult the documentation for your web browser. Even if you
block the use of cookies, certain other information including your IP
address, and referal URL (and other information provided by your
browser) may still be available and collected by this site, or by the
third party services listed above. For a good discussion regarding
internet privacy, including tips for limiting the information
available to websites, see
http://security.bcneuman.com/internetprivacy.php.

If you feel that this site (or any of the other sites we rely upon and
have listed above) are not following its stated information policy,
you may contact us using the contact information at the top of this page.